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Transcript of The Spiritual Dimension of LIfe Extension
The Spiritual Dimension of Life Extension
© 2010 Matthew J. Pallamary
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Recently Life Extension Foundation’s Bill Faloon honored me and a few others
with an invitation to attend a scientific anti-aging conference sponsored by Life
Extension, hosted by David Kekich’s Maximum Life Foundation. The "Manhattan
Beach Project" is an ongoing targeted assault on the human aging process that convenes
once a year in Manhattan Beach, California.
This was no ordinary anti aging conference; it was a high-powered brainstorm
session to figure out how to reverse aging. Top researchers from around the world
combined their genius and expertise to further their efforts at creating a scientific
roadmap toward full age reversal.
Each scientist represented a separate discipline from diverse fields such as stem
cell research, genomics, nanotechnology, cryobiology, biochemistry, biomedical
gerontology, molecular biology, and information technology. Just as the Manhattan
Project was designed in 1942 to build the atomic bomb to end WW II, the Manhattan
“Beach” Project which originated on June 23rd, 2000 is an all-out assault on the world’s
biggest killer – Aging.
As I sat listening with rapt fascination to these brilliant minds, I wondered how
did I get there, and what did I have to contribute? As each speaker gave his presentation
I heard about nuking aging, this “disease” called death, and a multitude of strategies that
could possibly overcome it. Amidst the miracles, I felt something missing, causing me to
puzzle over the question of humanity’s hubris, specifically with the question; are we
playing God?
As far as I am concerned, dying is part of living, and when the time comes, I am
prepared to embrace my death for the magical, transformative moment that it is. I look
forward to what the Great Mystery has in store for me.
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So what was I doing at an anti-aging conference and where was the piece that
eluded me?
The primary reason I was invited is that I am a platinum member of Life
Extension and truth be told, I am sometimes embarrassed at the number of supplements
that I take. When questioned I tell my friends and family that I am a walking science fair
experiment, but the reality of my choices goes much deeper.
The missing piece that I sought came from Dr. Joseph Mercola when someone
asked him about what to look for in an anti-aging doctor. His first response was to
correct them, saying, “I am not an anti-aging doctor, I am a wellness doctor.” Dr.
Mercola’s statement validated my connection with the spiritual dimension of life
extension and catalyzed my reasons for participating in the Manhattan Beach Project.
I have spent years exploring the jungles, mountains, and deserts of North, Central,
and South America researching ancient knowledge. Much of my research has been in the
Peruvian Amazon working first hand, studying shamanic plant medicines and indigenous
cultures. Most of my teaching has come from doing extended jungle plant diets in
prehistoric traditions. I have also traveled throughout the Peruvian Andes studying Incan
and Pre-Incan cultures, and in Mexico studying the Maya and Huichol cultures, as well as
those of North American Indians.
I was drawn to ancient healing practices and shamanism after learning that
shamans were the first medical specialists in indigenous communities whose traditional
methods are known to be effective in treating both physical and psychological ailments.
For thousands of years, indigenous groups have made extensive use of the materials
contained in the rainforest to meet their health needs. Shamans employ a whole body,
(w)holistic, system oriented approach to healing, not the divide and conquer mentality
championed by modern day institutionalized western medicine.
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Some years ago I had the good fortune to work with an aging healer in the
Peruvian Amazon who told me he was a “plant man” like his father before him, and his
father’s father before that, and still more fathers going as far back as could be
remembered. He took me on a jungle walk pointing out the healing properties of plant
after plant as well as their preparation, use, and the synergistic ways of combining them.
What drew me into Life Extension and their healing modalities is the way that
they also combine different plant essences for maximum synergistic effects. I saw the
ongoing evolution and research of Life Extension’s formulas as twenty first century
shamanism.
Ancient wisdom from many cultures tells us that our body is our temple. One of
the most profound, densely packed storehouses of wisdom on our planet is contained in
the temple of Amun-Mut-Khonsu in Egypt. This Temple of Anthropocosmic Man at
Luxor is architecturally rendered to exhibit within its design and artwork the same
proportions as the proportions of Man, as well as the mathematical and geometrical
structure of the Cosmos and its locale within human consciousness. Pharaonic
Consciousness not only recognized Man as the center of the Universe, it could formally
equate it as well.
In concert with this, prehistoric shamanic wisdom teaches us that our heart is the
sun that is the center of and the giver of life in the Universe that we inhabit, and that our
personal sun is connected in a holographic manner to the sun that gives life to our planet,
and that sun is connected successively on up the line through more suns, all the way back
to Source. When I see Life Extension’s illustration of the seventeen daggers that impact
the heart, I don’t see the daggers. I see seventeen ways of loving my heart, the center of
my universe.
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If I believe like the ancients that my body is my temple, then everything that I put
into it is an offering to divinity. I have trillions of cells in my Universe all doing their
best to keep me alive and thriving. I want to be a beneficial, loving caretaker and give
them the best that I can in return for their dedication, loving this magical Universe that I
inhabit down to the molecular level and beyond if possible. I don’t do this because I
want to live forever. I do this because I follow in the footsteps of the ancients whose
wisdom has led me to embrace the spiritual dimension of life extension.
Bibliography
McKenna, Terence Food of the Gods. New York: Bantam, 1993
Pallamary, Matthew J. Land Without Evil. Los Angeles: Charles Publishing, 1999
____________________. Spirit Matters. Carlsbad: Mystic Ink Publishing, 2008.
Schwaller de Lubicz, R.A. The Temple of Man. Rochester: Inner Traditions, 1998.
Winkelman, Michael. Shamanism: The Neural Ecology of
Consciousness and Healing. Westport: Bergin & Garvey,
2000
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BIO
Matthew Pallamary’s historical novel Land Without Evil, received rave reviews along with a San Diego Book Award for mainstream fiction. Matt also received the Man of the Year 2000 award from San Diego Writer's Monthly Magazine. Dreamland a novel about computer generated dreaming, written with Ken Reeth, won the 2002 Independent e-Book Award in the Horror/Thriller category.
His memoir Spirit Matters detailing his journeys to Peru, working with shamanic plant medicines took first place in the San Diego Book
Awards Spiritual Book Category, and was an Award-Winning Finalist in the autobiography/memoir category of the National Best Books 2008 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News.
WWW.MATTPALLAMARY.COM
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